Women, feminism, and geek culture

Microblogging: Geek Feminist Edition

In a discussion a while back on Twitter, a friend asked me to point her to other geek feminists on there. I could think of lots of people on both Twitter and the various StatusNet-based services like identi.ca who I know through this blog, LinuxChix, Ubuntu Women, and other projects, but I figured it would be nice to have folks self-identify, and possibly what they tweet / dent about if so inclined. I’ll kick it off with my own in the comments!

I’m @hypatiadotca on identi.ca and Twitter. I post mostly about computer security, hardware hacking, hackerspaces, and free/open source software, a little bit of Canadian politics, and of course, geek feminism :)

Edited to add: And of course I type slowly and Skud beat me to the punch on my own post! Heh.

@shecomputes is a project that started out of one of the LinuxChix mailing lists, and when we get it up and running, will be a repository of biographies of women working in computer-related disciplines.

@askdaily is where I and others post happy little stories about negotiating in everyday life. I started it after being inspired by the book Women Don’t Ask. I don’t post to it often enough, and would love to get submissions from others!

I am @azurelunatic on Twitter and Delicious (and my Delicious and Google Reader shared items both feed into my Twitter). I don’t really post things on a set theme, but I share a large number of geeky and/or feminist links, as well as fanfiction recommendations and other things I find interesting or amusing.

I’m @obiwankimberly on Twitter. My tweets are all over the place (computer science, business, music, and a bit of lifestreaming) but anything related to feminism usually gets me in trouble — I could use some followers who could help me fight the flame wars, when they erupt. ;0

I’m shadowspar on both twitter and (rarely) identi.ca. I natter about a lot of personal life stuff, chat back and forth with friends in the tech industry and the 100-odd local folks on twitter, and occasionally even post something relating to software development, QA, testing, usability, open source, geek feminism, or activism more broadly.

I’m @sillyhead on twitter. Being of a more science geek bent than a computer geek one, I tend to update about interesting sciencey stuff (often from my college courses), feminism, cool stuff online, and personal life bits.

i use my own microblogging server
Anyone on identi.ca can subscribe to me – just head to http://micro.br3nda.com/br3nda
Then press the green “subscribe” button. you’ll need to enter the URL to your identi.ca page on next form, and then follow your nose.

Ooh, thanks, Brenda. I hadn’t had an excuse to try connecting servers like that before, and it’s even easier than I imagined… once I remembered to turn on cookies. Someday, I’ll have to set up a server of my own.